General Information

Serial #

NPD-347

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Steel with unreflectorized enamel paint

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

30.6 cm

Width

15.2 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Motorized Ground Transportation

Category

Accessories

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Alberta

Period

1992-1996. Sticker expired in June 1996.

Canada

Standard format of licence plate used in almost every province in Canada since 1957 (6"x12") and personalised according to each province or territory. Licence plates were introduced in the early days of auto mobility to register car owners and their cars, in order to regulate them as they were getting more and more numerous on the roads and also obtain money to pay for different expenses linked to car road driving.

Function

To inform authorities in a visible printed way about a vehicle owner and the registration of his vehicle.

Technical

First licence plates were made by hand by the owner. They consisted often of numbers put on a rubber or leather piece or painted numbers on tin. Then provinces started to issue them using different materials at first. By the 1920's most provinces were stamping plates on steel. This plate is representative of recent plates being made of aluminium. It is also usable from year to year by using an expiration sticker instead of getting a new plate each year. This system began in the 1960's and 1970's in different Canadian provinces and later for Yukon and Nunavut. This plate also has with reflective paint.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Plate reads: "Alberta/ NPD-347/ Wild Rose Country"/ Upper left sticker reads: "EXPIRES LAST DAY OF/ JUN/ ALBERTA"/ Lower left sticker reads: "Alberta/ 96/ 96010607895"/ Lower right sticker reads: "Alberta/ 95/ 95000624442"/

Missing

N/A

Finish

White non-reflective background with red embossed letters and numbers. Red flower is not embossed. Blue print.

Decoration

Graphic image of Alberta's provincial flower.